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Subject: [RFC] [VOTE] Vote open for reliable user-land CSPRNG
From: me@sammyk.me (Sammy Kaye Powers)

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A two week discussion period has been held for the reliable user-land
CSPRNG RFC to add `random_bytes()` and `random_int()`. The RFC has now been
moved into voting.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/easy_userland_csprng

There was some discussion of prefixing the function names with `crypto_*()`
but there are a few reasons we decided against this:

1) There is a crypto pecl extension, so the pseudo-namespace might cause
confusion.
2) We want to work on a fully featured crypto framework for 7.1, and
crypto_* is a good prefix for that, so again, we don't want to mix things
up.

Thanks!


Thanks,
Sammy Kaye Powers
sammyk.me

230 S Clark St #194
Chicago, IL 60604

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